Craig Swartz on Microsoft

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November, 2007

  • Mobile Banking

    The hottest topic at BAI this year was Mobile banking via phone. Featured was an announcement by AT&T of a mobile banking application for all of their phones with access to Wachovia Bank. This is a Basic Java account access App built by Firethorn...
  • BAI day 2

    Day 2 kicked off with a talk by the CEO of WAMU, Kerri Killinger, discussing innovation at Wamu. From the sound of it, a fun culture, enhanced by encouraging ideas from the ground up, input to an innovation portal, and assigning these ideas to functional...
  • BAI time again

    The annual retail banking conference is underway, Day 1 featured Alan Greenspan and Steve Forbes Jr keynoting in seperate presentations. Of note..Alan Greenspan ascribes the current subprime loan debacle to the end of the Cold War. Steve Forbes main concern...
  • Just announced..Command console for Forefront security suite

    At the Microsoft tech event in Barcelona, a new Web management console for Forefront was announced..Customers can use the console to centrally manage and configure servers remotely, automatically download and distribute signature and engine updates, generate...